Improvement in fertilizer and seed-drhji



THOMAS B. MCCONAUGHEY,v 0F NEVVARK, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JAMES ADAMS, OF THE SAME PLACE'.

Leners Patent N9. 86,313-, daad .Tamm 2c, 1869,

INEPROVEMENT INA FETILIZER AND SEED-DRILL.

Tocll whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS B. MCOONAUGH'EY, of

i Newark, in the county of N ew Castle,I and State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-Drills and Fertilizing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and' exact description thereof, reference being had to. the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, and in which`v Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of my invention, with the seed-trough removed;

l Figure 2, a similar view, with the latter-namedde` i hopper or-trough ofthe seed-box; and, lastly, in supplying the seed-spouts or tubes with distributing or scattering-pins.`

To enable others to make and employ my invention, I will now describe its construction and operation.

-In the accompanying drawings- A represents the seed-box, to the lower side of which, Y

at each end, is secured a support or pendant, which is designed to be attached or mounted on suitable running gear.

The seed-box A is provided with a partition, B, ex-

-tending through its entire length, and forming a chamber, G, on-each of its sides and the inner sides of the seed-box, one being designed for seed and the other for fertilizers,

The chambers or apartments G C arci divided into"I smaller apartments or cells c c', by means of crosspieces or partitions d d, which are provided, at their upper ends, with inverted cone-shaped openings yf," through which the seed are transferred from one cell to the other.

Tjhe upper 'ends of the partitions d, of 'the' seedapartment, are provided or formed with 'metal stiips or plates, d2, placed at right angles therewith, and acting as shields or protectors to conveyers or distributers on the agitator-bar, near the openings f f, for the purpose of preventing dirt, or any other obstacle, from interfering with the conveyers or conductors while transferring the seed through the above-named openm s. A gD is the agitator-bar, which is supplied at its outer end with a pulley, c, over which a belt is designed to pass, communicating with one of the 'driving-wheels, and supplied, on 'the inside of the seed-apartment, with conveyers 0 1' conductors, ve e,the set of conveyeri, situated beneath the shields alz d, being inserted in the circumference of wheels c2 c, as seen in dotted lines'in figs.

1 and 4, in order to facilitate the transferring of the seed through the openings f f, from the seed-cells c c to the cells c c', which are provided, in their bottoms, with exit-openings g g, communicating. or provided with seed or fertilizer-spouts or tubes h h.

These spouts are provided, on an eitended portion 'of their surface, with pins or cylindrical vbans,-h'vh, against which, when the machine is in motion, the

' seed, descending the spouts h It, are made to come in contact, scattering them evenly andperfectly over the ground. h

E is a box or receiver, secured to the under side of theseed-box A, extending its entire length, andthrough whichthe seed and fertilizers pass from the openings in the bottom of the. seed-box to the spouts h h. at-j "tached to its lower side;

D is'another agitator-banano provided with'a pinion or pulley, e3, operated similarly to'agitator-bar D, and passing through the fertilizer-apartment O, an partitions d* di.'

This bar D' is valso supplied with conveyers. or conductors, m, made as seen in gs. 1 and .2, and which operate in a similar manner to the conductors c e of the seed-apartment, carrying the fertilizers through openings f 'f of partitions d* and precipitating the same into cells c c', supplied with openings g g, con.

necting with the receiver or box E and seed'or fertilizer-spouts h h with scattering-pinsi h'.

The partitions d" d are formed or provided,iat their upper ends, with shields, t' i, constructed as shown vin figs. 1 and 2, and for the purpose already set forth in connection with the shields d2 of the seed-apartment. jj are doors, supplied'to the fertilizer-cells c c, and heldinv place by means of 'buttons j' j.

F is the seed-hopper or trough, provided at each end with grooves, into which fit and secure it on the seedbox, standards, k k, fastened to the ends of the seedbox. ,i

-The inside of the hopper E is provided with -coneshaped eovers orpartitions,'G, which are 'designed to cover the cells, provided with the openings g g, for the escape of the seed and fertilizers;

The ends 'of this-hopper, on the inside, are also supplied 'with covers G', which are made to extend outward at their lower ends," so as to cover openings of a similar character, as openings g g, in the seed and feltilizer-cells'.

These covers do not extend across the entire 'width V of the seed-hopper, but are separated by a partition, placed in a line with the partition B of seed-box-A, and secured to the inner sides of the ends of the hopper F,

vWhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pant,- conductors e e, all constructed and arranged as set ent, i3. forth. Y Y

l. The employment of the partitions d d', provided In testimony that I claim the foregoing asjmy own, with the openings ff, and shields or protectors d d I affix my signature, in presence oftwo Witnesses. and i i, constructed, arranged, and operating substan- THOS. B. MCGONAUGHEY.

tially as and for the purpose described. Witnesses:

2. The partitions d d, @nd'shields d', in combinar .ALEXANDER WILSON, tion withthe cone-shaped coversl G G', pulley e, andV J ORN J. HERDMAN. 

